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Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Maryland, No. 23, September Term, 2023 · judgment July 14, 2025


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estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 0%

Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue an opinion containing finding of facts and conclusions of law relating to disbarring an attorney after refusing to address extensive, constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies

  2. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can use finding of facts and conclusions of law generated by a lower court or administrative entity, in a disbarment proceeding, after that lower court or administrative entity either refuses to address extensive constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies or claims that it lacked the jurisdiction to cure the referenced constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies and nevertheless generates a constitutionally defective product

  3. Can a court assign and use a finding of facts and conclusion of law of a state entity when there are unaddressed, outstanding related prosecutorial misconduct vindictive prosecution and other issues related to that state entity?

  4. Must a lawyer disciplinary proceeding address all Constitutional Due Process issues before the evidentiary proceedings that were raised at the start to avoid interjecting false and prejudicial material, which could undermine constitutional rights and procedural remedies in the future?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Gary Steven Pisner

For respondent
Rachel L. Stewart
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
25A516

Proceedings

  1. Aug 19 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Aug 07 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Attorney Grievance Commission of Md. to respond filed.
  3. Jan 20 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 18, 2026)
  4. Nov 06 2025
    Application (25A516) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 17, 2026.
  5. Nov 02 2025
    Application (25A516) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 18, 2025 to January 17, 2026, submitted to The Chief Justice.